Inspirations

Acorns were good until bread was found.

- Francis Bacon

Undoubtedly a man is to labor to better his condition, but first to better himself.

- William Ellery Channing

Where we cannot invent, we may at least improve.

- Charles Caleb Colton

The best performance improvement is the transition from the nonworking state to the working state.

- John Ousterhout

Men are anxious to improve their circumstances, but are unwilling to improve themselves, they therefore remain bound.

- James Allen

He who asks of life nothing but the improvement of his own nature is less liable than anyone else to miss and waste life.

- Henri Frederic Amiel

When the archer misses the mark, he turns and looks for the fault within himself. Failure to hit the bull's eye is never the fault of the target. To improve your aim, improve yourself.

- Gilbert Arland

Self-education is, I firmly believe, the only kind of education there is.

- Isaac Asimov

There is no use whatever trying to help people who do not help themselves. You cannot push anyone up a ladder unless he be willing to climb himself.

- Andrew Carnegie

You do not need to be loved, not at the cost of yourself. The single relationship that is truly central and crucial in a life is the relationship to the self. Of all the people you will know in a lifetime, you are the only one you will never lose.

- Jo Coudert

It makes little difference how many university courses or degrees a person may own. If he cannot use words to move an idea from one point to another, his education is incomplete.

- Norman Cousins

He who stops being better stops being good.

- Oliver Cromwell

Become addicted to constant and never-ending self-improvement.

- Anthony J D'Angelo

The good man is the man who, no matter how morally unworthy he has been, is moving to become better.

- John Dewey

People never improve unless they look to some standard or example higher or better than themselves.

- Tryon Edwards

The never-ending task of self improvement.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Inside yourself or outside, you never have to change what you see, only the way you see it.

- Thaddeus Golas

If what you did yesterday seems big, you haven't done anything today.

- Lou Holtz

There's only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that's your own self.

- Aldous Huxley

In oneself lies the whole world and if you know how to look and learn, the door is there and the key is in your hand. Nobody on earth can give you either the key or the door to open, except yourself.

- Jiddu Krishnamurti

I don't think much of a man who is not wiser today than he was yesterday.

- Abraham Lincoln

The way for a young man to rise is to improve himself in every way he can, never suspecting that anybody wishes to hinder him.

- Abraham Lincoln

The improvement of our way of life is more important than the spreading of it. If we make it satisfactory enough, it will spread automatically. If we do not, no strength of arms can permanently oppose it.

- Charles A Lindbergh

The best thing you can do is get good at being you.

- Dennis the Menace

By these things examine thyself. By whose rules am I acting, in whose name, in whose strength, in whose glory? What faith, humility, self-denial, and love of God and to man have there been in all my actions?

- Jackie Mason

When you are through improving yourself, you are out of the game. You learn until your last breath.

- Richard A Nelson

The place to improve the world is first in one's own heart and head and hands.

- Robert M Pirsig

Live to live and you will learn to live.

- Portuguese Proverb

Commit to CANI! Constant And Never-ending Improvement.

- Anthony Robbins

What you become directly influences what you get.

- Jim Rohn

To affect the quality of the day, that is the highest of arts. Every man is tasked to make his life, even in its details, worthy of the contemplation of his most elevated and critical hour.

- Henry David Thoreau

If you wish to achieve worthwhile things in your personal and career life, you must become a worthwhile person in your own self-development.

- Brian Tracy

Invest three percent of your income in yourself, self-development, in order to guarantee your future.